Herald & Umtern 5 August 81

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.OCIAN AND BAY] SOUNDINGS

Last week I wrote W two worlds — the Ocean and the Bay. During the past week I was transported to another world — Vacationland, complete with boardwalk, sun, surf; and minitaure golf courses, as my son Dr. Bill and his wife Jane brought our two grandchildren, Amy & little Bill, tb the shore for a

long weekend.

We started out . over at Mariner’s Landing on the Wildwood boardwalk with all the different rides kids 6 and *7 years-old-like, and stopped in to view Ix»n Guthrie’s and Ed Basic's Shark Shack. The kids really liked the 4i«j)lay.

3 ByjBoyd TyUrj

CAPTAIN Martin Dipper on the A Bantus found a spot past the 30 fathom curve almost to the 35 on the way to the tip of the Baltimore, and got two white marlin, one wahoo, several yellowfin, and more true

albacore.

WHILE I WAS painting the town red, the fisnermen were catching fish in the ocean and bay. On Saturday, Cpt. Joe Drosey on the Miss Pcnfield had three yellow fins and a wahoo; and bn Sunday he went out on the Canyon Lady with Cpt. Hay Vandegrift and got four more yellow fins; they lost a white and a little blue on the 30 fathom line. This week on Friday the Canyon Lady boated a 90 lb. white, the biggest I’ve heard of this season. Blair and Stan^Hansen went deep in the canyon, and came back with nine swordfish on the iHurry Sundoum for the priae catch of the week. On the R^d Beard, Jack Osborne, "Clfaning Keenan, and Don Morphy 4 had six yellowfins that \ totaled over 200 pounds, and lost a white just as they' were reaching for the . leader. Jack continued to be "hot boat" on Friday when he took Jimmy Watson out on the 30 fathom line. Jifn got two yellowfin tuna, arid “Cleaning’’ Keenan got one, and they raised a white which jumped off. Jack told me the Pipe Dream had a blue marlin on for Sb minutes, but it threw the hook.

GOOD SIZE fluke is displayed by Jeff Dinofia of King of Prussia who caught It aboard the Rainbow. Inshore, the fluke fishing improved, and the head boats were catching larger fluke as evidenced by the picture of Jeff Dinofia from Cpt. Charles Shelby’s Rainbow. Over in the bay, Cpt. Mark Elliott took the Go'ie Ftuhin' up to the outer punk grounds, and came back jvith 30 nice size weakfish, and 70 keeper flounders for his party. ON FRIDAY I ran into "Skeets" Shaw of Green Creek and he told me that Cpt. Nate High and "Pete” Barber had 18 nice weakfish at « buoy. This coupled with Vatches that Joe Rodia was'lelling me about on the inshore edge of Bayshore channel sOrt of points out the fact that weakfishing is coming back in the Bay. Some of the head boats are working the rips with good success.

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Bluefish trolling sort of slowed down ,dtlring the week, but on Thursday, veteran skipper Frank Cassedy on the Lady Grace ■ managed to get 27 jumbo’s for his party. /Night bluefish chumming, which may or may not be affecting the daytime trollers, was very good this week in spite of a report in a Philadelphia newspaper that bluefish had disappeared from the Jersey Cape. THE PRIZE story this week came from Cpt. Bob Hitchner’s Thunderblrd. During a night chumming trip they churned up a school of drum out in the Ocean, and had a lot of bfent poles and broken lines. I don’t know how many drums were caught, but there were a lot df surprised anglers, including a surprised captain and mate. ' Wahoo have made an appearance on the 30 fathom" line, and several have been caught along with sqme dolphin (not porpoises). I got -a chance to get out there Saturday on the Ginger with Palmer Way. and Jack Light of Sea Isle City. We trolled and didn’t have much luck as Saturday wasn’t a red hot day, except early in the morning, but Jack and I filled the cockpit with bill fish stories from the '60s and ’70s when we were both actively marlin fishing. A LOT OF the fleet were fishing Wilmington canyon because of the $25,000 Beach Haven marlin tournament, and we were foo far away for radio contact. Most of the action is still on the 30 & 35 fathom lines, but we didn’t do anything to prove this observation. I'll try to get closer to the scene next week, and report some locations on this terrific fishing season.

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